Hedges Test - More

[mr-miley]

Hi all
This is NOT a finished piece, it just has basic lighting and the background is completely untextured (with the sky cropped out) I had a thought about creating hedges for fields and this is just a proof of concept render (almost sounds like I know what I'm doing  ) to see if I could put things on top of the hedges eg trees, grass etc

Yes I can

The hedge sides are just an image map. I have no doubt that there are those here with far more skill than me that could manage to do this procedually but..... I'm not one of them 

Any way, what do y'all think?

C&C wanted

Miles

P.S. Rendered in Windows 7. Niiiicccceeee OS. If I didn't know any better I'd be inclined to say Microsoft have done something right for once

[rcallicotte]

This looks like a photo at this size, Miles.  Looks good.  Maybe we need a bigger image so we can be supersonically-critical.   

[mr-miley]

Calico

Glad you like it. I'll set one to render tonight as i'm in work at the moment and I should at least pretend to be doing work type things  It does need to be bigger for anyone to say anything useful.

Miles

[neuspadrin]

i'm in work at the moment and I should at least pretend to be doing work type things 

Haha, *glances around at lecture*

nice render though, a bigger render would be nice though.

[matrix2003]

 - That's IT!  Terragen has ruined the world's economy.
People not being productive, students abandoning their studies ....

Its quite obvious to me now, the rapture will be a render.   

[MacGyver]

Its quite obvious to me now, the rapture will be a render.   

Pardon?
Nice image btw.

[matrix2003]

er ... one was at work.
the other was in class. ?

[Saurav]

This is looking great, I can see some snow capped hills in the background for future versions.

[mr-miley]

OK

Been fiddling about a bit (and using TG2 as well  ) added a bit more etc I now need to find a way to do / a model of, brambles. These would look good on the top of the hedges and hanging down their sides (we get a lot of that round here, can't tell where the bramble ends and hedge begins) I'm going to be rendering this bigger tonight (hopefully) and I'll post it tomorow.

Let me know what you think

Miles

[rcallicotte]

Good, but make fluffier clouds.

[mr-miley]

OK heres the bigger version. I know that the dandylions are a bit "luminous" but I'll be stuffed if I'm re-rendering this  Any road up, this was never meant to be a full render, just a go at making usable hedges. I know they work now so I can go ahead and use them elsewhere.

Miles

[cyphyr]

Looking good and a useful technique, but I'm confused ... (quite normal coffee still kicking in... ) In my part of the world we'd not call these "hedges", we'd call them walls with some vegetation growing on top. Do they build up the hedges where you are, looks kinda like dry stone walling to me.
richard

[sjefen]

Very nice image. The grass looks really good, but maybe a little too green.
I don't understand those black ereas tho

- Terje

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cyphyr

Na, its not the lack of coffee, its a regional thing. I grew up in Cornwall, where the indestructable stone walls are referred to as Cornish Hedges, not walls. I therefore tend to call everything "Hedges". I've actually seen the aftermath of a 40 ton 18 wheeler ploughing into a Cornish Hedge. After they managed to take what was left of the lorry away, the only damage to ther wall was one of the larger stones had fallen out, and some of the others were a bit scratched! 

sjefen, I think the saturation of the grass and the "black areas" (they are shadows actually) is mainly due to me having saved this as an EXR and run it through PhotoMatix. I got the darkness of the shadows wrong 

[cyphyr]

I've actually seen the aftermath of a 40 ton 18 wheeler ploughing into a Cornish Hedge. After they managed to take what was left of the lorry away, the only damage to ther wall was one of the larger stones had fallen out, and some of the others were a bit scratched! 

LOL 
cyphyr